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Northern California welcomed Tanner’s The Thankful Poor
Brenda Joysmith Studio. was purchased by the Cosby family.
Joysmith studio spent 20 years After remaining in a school closet for
in Oakland, CA. In October 75 years, Te Tankful Poor
1999, it moved to Memphis, by Henry O. Tanner was rediscovered
TN and opened as Joysmith and auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1981.
Gallery & Studio. Bill and Camille Cosby bought it for
$250,000; at the time that was the
most ever spent for a painting by an African-American artist.

Roots TV series Wanda Wallace Associates was established in Los Angeles.
Two Centuries of Black Te success of Roots had A corporate art consultant, Wallace was a national distributor and
publisher of fne art.
American Art 1976 a lasting impact on the Sun Gallery opened
African-American art American audience. Te in Washington, DC. California African-American Museum opened in Los Angeles.
exhibition catalog show’s executives had not Sun Gallery began as an art Te Museum began in 1981 in temporary quarters at the
by David C. Driskell expected that Black-oriented gallery and a goldsmith’s California Museum of Science and Industry. Te current facility in
programming with Black Bumpin’ studio. Later, it was bought Exposition Park was built for $5 million and was fnanced by state
Afro-American Historical heroes and white villains could by Brenda Joysmith by Ronald Chism, who used it and private funds.
and Cultural Museum was attract such huge audiences. to showcase unique artwork,
founded in Philadelphia, PA Studio Museum in cards, carvings, artifacts, books
in celebration of the nation’s Sutton Black Heritage Harlem opened in New York and a large variety of prints and
Bicentennial. Art Gallery opened in City. posters.
Te museum was the frst Houston, TX. Tis museum initially opened
institution funded and built Te owner, Robbie Lee, in 1968 in a rented loft at Fifth Malcolm Brown
by a major municipality to remembers how difcult it was Avenue and 125th Street. In Gallery opened in Shaker
preserve, interpret and exhibit to see art by African-Americans 1979, the New York Bank Heights, OH.
the heritage of African- at the time. She created her for Savings donated to the
Americans. gallery to showcase and to give museum a 60,000-square-foot
a voice to African-American facility. Te museum relocated
I Want You artists. to this space, at 144 West Super Mall Art Show at the
by Marvin Gaye Fox Hills Mall George N’Namdi’s frst gallery
Kenkeleba Gallery opened in Te cover for this album Artcetera Art: African-American 125th Street, in 1982. Barbara Wesson started her frst opened in Detroit.
New York City. featured Sugar Shack, a Eugene Foney’s gallery opened African-American art book mall exhibition at the Fox Hills It was named “Jazzonia” after
painting by Ernie Barnes. in Houston, TX. by Samella S. Lewis Mall in Los Angeles, CA. Later, a poem by Langston Hughes.
Frank Frazier exhibited at the Tree years later N’Namdi
Brooklyn Museum. The frst issue of the show moved to the Baldwin moved and changed the name
After showing at Hunter the Black Arts Quarterly was Hills Mall. to G.R. N’Namdi Gallery. Te
College in New York (1971), published by Samella S. Lewis. gallery has continued to grow
this exhibition served to launch Te name changed to the and has expanded into three
Frazier’s long artistic career. International Review of African- locations: one in downtown
American Art in 1984. Detroit, one in Chicago’s West
Te journal is now published Loop Art District and one on
by Hampton University. West 26th Street in New York
City’s Chelsea Art District.
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